Coffee???? Urgh..... It actually smells like something is burning and on
fire.....

Yep - I don't know what the attraction is. Overpowering smell and bitter
taste. I find it strange that after spending a lot of money on good food
in a high-class restaurant, people then ask for coffee at the end of the
meal which completely drowns the taste of anything they ate. Something
like green tea would be much better after a meal, but do many
restaurants serve it?

+1.

Even my in-laws find coffee a vile smell drink like my wife and I do.

The MIL drinks camomile tea, the FIL drinks hot chocolate, wifey drinsk
green tea and I drink very strong fruit tea (4 fruit tea bags in one mug)


Its considered to be vile in our house that the two sets of builders we
had on two seperate occasions were asking for coffee instead of tea to
our surprise (I am rather fond of "builder's" tea which is two tea bags
in a mug but without the sugar)

We explained we would happily make tea for them but we drew the line at
making coffee.

We gave them a camping table, kettle, jug of milk, mugs, teaspoons,
sugar cubes and a brand new sealed jar of *spit* coffee *spit* on a tray.

They were pointed to an outside tap which also had an outdoor socket
next to it.

So they made their own outside
I don't like coffee, but will reluctantly drink cappuccino in a cafe as
it seems to me most coffee houses can't make a reliably decent cup of
tea, and to some extent the chocolate masks the coffee taste.

We are, however, in a very small minority. C'est la vie...

The smell of coffee is so vile I cannot physically enter a Costly coffee
or a Starsucks shop.

I cannot even carry a mug of hot coffee that someone has asked me to
take to so and so due to the smell.

I can even smell it on people's breath hours after they have drunk it.